Control: severity 715110 normal Control: severity 715122 normal On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 05:01:15AM +0000, David Steele wrote: > Package: libsamba-util-dev > Version: 4.0.0~beta2+dfsg1-3.2 > Severity: serious > User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts, broken-symlink, broken-symlink-shared-library > During a test with piuparts, I noticed your package is > responsible for the presence of broken symlinks involving > a shared library. Such failures may indicate a significant > problem with the package. "serious" when there's a grand total of 0 packages that use this -dev package for linking against the library? Not hardly. I think this severity: serious mass-bug filing is extremely poorly conceived. The fact that these bugs have evaded notice until a lintian check was added means that they do *not* have a high impact on the quality of the release. If they did, they would have turned up already by way of archive rebuild testing. > This is being filed as Serious because it represents a violation > of Policy. Section 8 states "Packages containing shared > libraries must be constructed with a little care to make sure > that the shared library is always available". The packages you've filed bugs against do *not* contain shared libraries. This is a completely bogus justification for a severity serious bug. You also did not achieve a consensus on debian-devel in favor of this mass bug filing before reporting these bugs. At least one person objected to you filing these at severity: serious; another objected to this being considered an error at all. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/07/msg00115.html While in the case of these two bug reports it's definitely a bug in the packages and should be fixed, it's nowhere near severity: serious. I suspect most of the other bugs are similar. Please downgrade the bugs from your MBF to a more appropriate severity. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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